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- Oct 18, 2003
Wow. My school gets comps from 3 sources: Dell, Apple, Sun, and, guess this, they build their own! They get the dells for free. They pay big bucks for the solaris workstations, and they have a lot of G5 imacs and towers. I swear that some of the labs look like they picked up every funky case off of newegg. Most use black antec cases. Yesterday I saw an elecrtical engineering professor building a rig for use in th ecomputer lab. Want to know the specs? Athlon 64 3200+, msi k8n neo, msi x300se, black antec case, antec power supply, black dvd burner, maxtor hard drives. All the computers in the science, engineering, and computer science buildings are self built (except for the solaris workstations in CS building). I think it is really cool that they build their own comps.
Also so many people build their own too and are very proficient with software. Nobody really overclocks anything much if at all; I only know 1 other person who does, and he is not very good. I am surprised how many AMD's there are. Of the build it yourselves, about 80% use AMD, and a lot of the intels want AMD. I don't know why, but everyone wants a 3700+ . Of the buy it builts desktop category, about 2/5 intel, and the rest split between apple and amd. Of the laptops, about half are intel and half apple. I have only seen 1 amd laptop!
Just my observations.
Also so many people build their own too and are very proficient with software. Nobody really overclocks anything much if at all; I only know 1 other person who does, and he is not very good. I am surprised how many AMD's there are. Of the build it yourselves, about 80% use AMD, and a lot of the intels want AMD. I don't know why, but everyone wants a 3700+ . Of the buy it builts desktop category, about 2/5 intel, and the rest split between apple and amd. Of the laptops, about half are intel and half apple. I have only seen 1 amd laptop!
Just my observations.